ABSTRACT
Despite the great importance of pederasty as a theme in the remains of Greek literature, the actual modalities of courtship are hardly mentioned outside of comedy. In vase-painting, the situation is far different. Courtship scenes are the vast majority of the pederastic scenes we know today. In our appendix, for instance, the two main courtship iconographies comprise over half of the scenes, while scenes of intercourse comprise under 10 percent (see note 38, p. 237).
